The AWS Developers Podcast

Continuing their conversation from Episode 40, Dave chats with Matteo Rinaudo, a Senior Developer Advocate for AWS CloudFormation (CFN). Matteo dives deeper into CloudFormation, walks through the CloudFormation Hook GitHub repo, and discusses real world advice on how to code with CloudFormation today. Matteo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrinaudo Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedavedev A...

In this episode, Dave chats with Matteo Rinaudo, a Senior Developer Advocate for AWS CloudFormation (CFN). Matteo walks through his career start, the beginnings of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), why CloudFormation is useful for developers, and the recent launch of CloudFormation Hooks. CloudFormation Hooks is a new way to create executable custom logic that will automatically inspect your cloud res...

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Talia Nassi, a Senior Developer Advocate for AWS Serverless. Talia covers her cloud career, Q&A, and the oddly effective method of testing in production. One of Talia’s passions is EDA, or Event Driven Architecture. In this chat, Talia walks through the different event driven AWS services developers can utilize, when to choose one over the other, and how b...

In this episode, Emily and Dave continue their chat with Darko Mesaros, Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services. In part two of this two-part series, Darko talks about his command line setup, some of the tools he uses, and tips for a productive developer environment. Part 1 is available as Episode 037. Darko on Twitter: twitter.com/darkosubotica Emily on Twitter: twitter.com/editingemily...

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Darko Mesaros, Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services. In part one of this two-part series, Darko talks about growing up in Serbia, his journey to the cloud, his love of vintage computers, and the power of coding within limited hardware constraints. Darko on Twitter: twitter.com/darkosubotica Emily on Twitter: twitter.com/editingemily Dave on Twi...

In this episode, Dave continues his chat with Luca Bianchi, Chief Technology Officer at Neosperience and WizKey. Luca covers his career in Machine Learning, an overview of Machine Learning on AWS, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Sagemaker, and AWS Glue. Luca also discusses current 2022 ML trends including Transformers, and Edge Computing. Luca on Twitter: twitter.com/bianchiluca Dave...

In this episode, Dave chats with Luca Bianchi, Chief Technology Officer at Neosperience and WizKey. Luca covers his career in Machine Learning, an overview of Machine Learning on AWS, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Sagemaker, and AWS Glue. Luca also discusses Edge ML and what can be achieved using commodity hardware. Luca on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bianchiluca Dave on Twitter:...

In this episode, Dave chats with Sebastian Korfmann, Tech Lead for CDK for Terraform at Hashicorp. Sebastian gives an overview of what CDK for Terraform (CDKTF) is, how developers can get started, what unit testing looks like, success stories of customers using CDKTF today, and the CDKTF team’s future plans. Sebastian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skorfmann Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/t...

In this episode, Dave chats with Nader Dabit, Developer Relations Engineer at Edge & Node. In his career, Nader has worn the hats of a web developer, mobile developer, AWS cloud developer, and now Web3 developer. Nader is the author behind many of the popular, free, developer guides for the Web3 space including: The Complete Guide to Full Stack Web3 Development, The Complete Guide to Full Stack Et...

In this episode, Dave chats with Nader Dabit, Developer Relations Engineer at Edge & Node. In his career, Nader has worn the hats of a web developer, mobile developer, AWS cloud developer, and now Web3 developer. Nader is the author behind many of the popular, free, developer guides for the Web3 space including: The Complete Guide to Full Stack Web3 Development, The Complete Guide to Full Stack Et...

In this episode, Dave and Emily chat with Matthew Bonig, Senior Cloud Architect at Defiance Digital. Matthew is an AWS DevTools Hero, one of the authors of the CDK Book, and a contributing member of the developer community. Matthew chats about his journey to the cloud, and shares his insights into building your own automated workflow orchestration using AWS Step Functions, Workflow Studio, and the...

In this episode, Dave chats with Nikhil Swaminathan, Sr. Manager, Product Management at AWS Amplify, to discuss AWS Amplify Hosting. AWS Amplify Hosting is a fully managed CI/CD and hosting service for fast, secure, and reliable static and server-side rendered apps that scale. It supports many modern web frameworks including React, Angular, Vue, Next.js, Gatsby, Hugo, Jekyll, and more. Nikhil cove...

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Matt Coulter, Senior Architect at Liberty IT. Matt is a well-known helper and educator in the Cloud Development Kit (CDK) developer community. In addition to his work at Liberty IT, Matt is also an AWS DevTools Hero, and organizer of many community events. Matt shares his journey to the cloud, building CDK Patterns, writing the new CDK Book, and offers ins...

In this episode, Dave continues his conversation with Julian Wood, Senior Developer Advocate for AWS Serverless. In part two of this two-part series, Julian digs into real world serverless, lessons learned, AWS services to think about, event-driven computing, recent serverless launches, and tips for serverless development with local environments. Julian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/julian_wood...

In this episode, Dave chats with Julian Wood, Senior Developer Advocate for AWS Serverless. Julian shares his time transitioning from an IT Infrastructure job into the cloud, the start of Serverless at AWS, Serverless modern app development, and career advice for continued learning. This episode is part one of a two-part series on Serverless on AWS. Julian on Twitter: https://twitter.com/julian_wo...

In this episode, Dave chats with Brice Pelle, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, about AWS AppSync. AppSync is a managed service that helps simplify data access, and the creation of scalable GraphQL APIs. Brice introduces AppSync, shares how developers can save time when managing mobile notifications, examples of how customers are using the service today, covers recent releases, and then what t...

In this episode, Dave chats with Jason Dunn, Sr. Developer Community Manager at AWS, and owner of the AWS Community Builders program. The program offers technical resources, mentorship, and networking opportunities to AWS technical enthusiasts and emerging thought leaders who are passionate about sharing knowledge and connecting with the technical community. Jason covers what it’s like to run a pr...

In this episode, Dave chats with Mohit Srivastava, Sr. Manager, Product Management, Front-End Web and Mobile. The Amplify team had a large announcement during Werner’s keynote at re:Invent, with the launch of Amplify Studio. Mohit dives into this new release, the challenges it was created to address, the ability for developers to now extend Amplify Studios behavior, and what else the team has been...

In this episode, Dave chats with Karissa Wood, Global Developer Community Manager at Amazon Web Services. Karissa runs the AWS Usergroup program which currently supports over 400 community run groups around the globe. The two chat about usergroups meeting virtually during the pandemic, the importance of community and connections outside of work, how AWS helps support the community through a variet...

In this episode, Dave chats with Danielle Kucera, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, AWS Marketing, and Adam Ruka, Software Development Engineer for AWS SDKs and Tools. They cover the launch of Construct Hub, a simplified way of finding and using open-source Cloud Development Kit (CDK) libraries, as well as all things CDK V2, including new changes to the core libraries, payload size, as well as the ne...

In this episode, Dave chats with Kevin Lappe, Research Product Manager at Amazon Web Services. Kevin owns a unique space within AWS Developer Tools where his team thinks about the developer tool chain, and what AWS can build for developers in 2023 in beyond. This research combines quantitative data, usability testing, observation, and anecdotes to bridge the gap between engineering teams and custo...

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Harshita Daddala, Sr. Product Manager - Technical at Amazon Web Services. Harshita covers her career path at Amazon, the benefits of AWS Amplify for developers, and the recent launch of the AWS Amplify Geo library for JavaScript. Amplify Geo enables developers to quickly add location-aware features to their frontend web and mobile applications. It includes...

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Kesha Williams, Principal Training Architect at A Cloud Guru. Kesha is both an Alexa Champion and an AWS Hero where she focuses on helping others get up to speed with machine learning. Kesha discusses her multi decade career, her time as a senior Java developer, her journey to the cloud, learning Python, and steps she took to get started in machine learnin...

In this episode, Dave chats with Farrah Campbell, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Modern Applications at Amazon Web Services. Farrah runs multiple community programs within AWS including Serverless and Containers Heroes categories. She is a well-known face of the community both online and at events. Farrah chats about her start, the impact of the serverless developer community on her own care...

In this episode, Emily and Dave chat with Maish Saidel-Keesing, a Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services. Maish discusses challenges enterprises face when moving to the cloud, his approach to challenging customers and organizational boundaries, as well as the effects of the global covid pandemic has had on how developers work. Maish on Twitter: https://twitter.com/maishsk Maish on Linked...